Secure Today, Migrate Tomorrow: How Statista Shielded Vue 2 with HeroDevs NES

Vue 2 EOL: The Gut-Punch Moment

Vue 2’s support window slammed shut, leaving Statista’s data-heavy platform exposed, and still serving over 1.5 million stats across 80,000 topics to global decision-makers. A full Vue 3 migration meant months of dev time they didn’t have.

The Fast Fix: Drop-In NES

Instead of burning their roadmap, Statista plugged in HeroDevs’ Vue 2 Never-Ending Support (NES). NES delivered real-time security patches like the core team had never left, dropping them straight into their existing CI/CD.

How They Pulled It Off

1. Secure credential management – One npm mirror held the NES key; no leaked secrets.
   
   
2. Centralised distribution – Their internal package manager auto-mirrored each new NES release.
   
   
3. Environment-wide rollout – Same patched build hit dev, staging, and prod in a single shot.
   
   

Three Takeaways You Can Steal

1. Kill the false choice. It isn’t “rewrite or accept risk.” Third-party maintenance buys you time.
   
   
2. Patch speed beats patch count. Statista’s NES fixes shipped in days, not quarters.
   
   
3. Guard the supply chain. Mirror private registries so keys and builds stay internal.
   
   

Apply It to Your Stack—Today

• Audit your EOL surface. List every framework past maintenance.
  
  
• Time-box migration vs. NES. You're an NES candidate if the rewrite isn’t done in 90 days.
  
  
• Automate patch intake. Mirroring means zero friction after day one.
  
  
• Prove compliance fast. Export HeroDevs SBOM + SLA docs for auditors.
  
  

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